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0/ M E: 25 JULY 1344 DUISBURGER OORE go au ter Wrudher. art Th M DUISburg, zt. 24 July 1944 To M SS-Obergruppenführer Minister of State K.H.Frank, m2327 Effed ace Czernin-Palais, 20 Prague 2 281y. Dear Minister of state! In a letter from SS-Sturmbannführer Wolf, I learned that you had decided, with regard to a possible cessation of the tenor Orth, to contest the payment of this tenor from your own resources, provided that the Duisburg Opera had no substantial cover for this amount. Now that Mr Orth has been committed to our ensemble for the next season, I would like to thank you very much, Mr Minister of State, for this new sign of your helpfulness to our institute, regardless of whether the Duisburg Opera has to claim your generous accommodacy for official reasons. If the Duisburg Opera was able to fulfil the artistic hopes placed on it in the current season, it will bear a small part of the great thanks which it owes to you, very venerable Minister of State, for the kind reception at a difficult hour and for the loving welcome with which you have always met her as a true friend. St.M MO-M0i3